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Epistemetrics
2006. Pp: 112. Epistemetrics is not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there is the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, does not have a monopoly on knowledge. It is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Nicholas Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge is not only of interest in itself, but is also instructive in bringing into sharper relief the nature of and the explanatory rationale for the limits that unavoidably confront our efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In particular, his book demonstrates the limitations of human knowledge and will be of great value to scholars working in this area. ISBN: 9780521861205. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Nature and Understanding. The Metaphysics and Method of Science
Clarendon Press, 2000. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 186. Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity. Rescher seeks to describe - in a way accessible to philosophers and nonphilosophers alike - the metaphysical situation that characterizes the process of inquiry in natural science. His principal aim is to see what light can be shed on reality by examining the modus operandi of natural science itself, focusing as much on its findings as on its conceptual and methodological presuppositions. This is the culmination of many years of penetrating work in this area of philosophy by one of its most eminent exponents. It is the definitive presentation of some of Rescher's key ideas. ISBN: 9780198250852. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Rationality
Clarendon Press, 1988. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 234. Contending that only a normative theory of rationality can be adequate to the complexities of the subject, this book explains and defends the view that rationality consists of the intelligent pursuit of appropriate objectives. Rescher considers the mechanics, rationale, and rewards of reason, and argues that social scientists who want to present a theory of rationality while avoiding the vexing complexities of normative deliberations must amend their perspective of the rational enterprise. ISBN: 9780198244356. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Sensible Decisions. Issues of Rational Decision in Personal Choice and Public Policy
Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Hardcover. Pp: 147. In personal and public affairs alike we constantly confront the need for deciding among available alternatives. Philosophers have long been preoccupied with the lines of thought and principles of deliberation in resolving such choices rationally. Sensible Decisions synthesizes Nicholas Rescher's contribution to this discussion over the years. This book is concerned with the procedural constraints that rationality imposes on our choices in the social and technological reality in which we operate. Rescher's prime aim is to illuminate some of the theoretical complications and perplexities that characterize rational procedure in matters of decision making at the public policy level. ISBN: 9780742514904. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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A System of Pragmatic Idealism: Volume 3 - Metaphilosophical Inquiries
Princeton University Press, 1994. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 269. This is the third and final volume that summarizes the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinking throughout his career. In combining leading ideas of European continental idealism and American pragmatism in a new way, Rescher has created an integrated philosophical position in which the central concepts of these two traditions become a coherent totality. The initial volume in the series was dedicated to epistemology, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of nature, while the second dealt with issues of value theory, ethics and practical philosophy. This volume examines the nature of philosophical inquiry itself, seeking to affirm the classical conception of philosophy as a significant problem-solving enterprise that draws on the whole range of human experience in an attempt to resolve the big questions. ISBN: 9780691073941. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Studies in epistemology : essays
Oxford : Basil Blackwell 1975. First Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 168 pages; Description: vii. 168 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Knowledge. Theory of -- Philosophical perspectives. Series: American philosophical quarterly. Monograph series ; no. 9.ISBN: 0631115307.
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Cognitive systematization: A systems-theoretic approach to a coherentist theory of knowledge
Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1979; Totowa NJ, Rowman and Littlefield; 211pp.; Dust jacket partly sunned. -- Conditie: Goed; Engels; ISBN10: 084766094x, ISBN13: 9780847660940
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Keywords: Filosofie
Conditionals
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. Hardcover Dustjacket. 246 pp. (Bradford Books). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This approach, argues Rescher, makes it easier to understand how conditionals actually function in our thought and discourse. In its concern with what language theorists call pragmatics-the study of the norms and principles governing our use of language in conveying information- Conditionals steps beyond the limits of logic as traditionally understood and moves into the realm claimed by theorists of artificial intelligence as they try to simulate our actual information-processing practices. The book's treatment of counterfactuals essentially revives an epistemological approach proposed by F. P. Ramsey in the 1920s and developed by Rescher himself in the 1960s but since overshadowed by the now-dominant possible-worlds approach. Rescher argues that the increasingly evident liabilities of the possible-worlds strategy make a reappraisal of the older style of analysis both timely and desirable. As the book makes clear, an epistemological approach demonstrates that counterfactual reasoning, unlike inductive inference, is not a matter of abstract reasoning alone but one of good judgment and common sense. ISBN 9780262182591.
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Keywords: PHILOSOPHY,
Epistemetrics
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2006). orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xi,112 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ Contents: Asking for more than truth : Duhem’s law of cognitive complementarity -- Kant’s conception of knowledge as systematized information -- Spencer’s law of cognitive development -- Gibbon’s law of logarithmic returns -- Adams’s thesis on exponential growth -- Quality retardation -- How much can be known? : a Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact -- On the limits of knowledge : a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude. [" When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there was the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, had a monopoly on knowledge. Although it is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Nicholas Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge is not only of interest in itself, but is also instructive in bringing into sharper relief the nature of and the explanatory rationale for the limits that unavoidably confront our efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In particular, his book demonstrates the limitations of human knowledge and will be of great value to scholars working in this area" - publisher's description].
¶ Contents: Asking for more than truth : Duhem’s law of cognitive complementarity -- Kant’s conception of knowledge as systematized information -- Spencer’s law of cognitive development -- Gibbon’s law of logarithmic returns -- Adams’s thesis on exponential growth -- Quality retardation -- How much can be known? : a Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact -- On the limits of knowledge : a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude. [" When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there was the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, had a monopoly on knowledge. Although it is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Nicholas Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge is not only of interest in itself, but is also instructive in bringing into sharper relief the nature of and the explanatory rationale for the limits that unavoidably confront our efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In particular, his book demonstrates the limitations of human knowledge and will be of great value to scholars working in this area" - publisher's description].
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Keywords: Theory of Knowledge, Epistemology, Philosophy, Verification, Empiricism, Epistemetrics, , ,
Epistemetrics.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Hardcover. Dustjacket. 124 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there was the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, had a monopoly on knowledge. Although it is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Nicholas Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge is not only of interest in itself, but is also instructive in bringing into sharper relief the nature of and the explanatory rationale for the limits that unavoidably confront our efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In particular, his book demonstrates the limitations of human knowledge and will be of great value to scholars working in this area. ISBN 9780521861205.
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Keywords: PHILOSOPHY,
Error: (On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong)
Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2007. (ISBN: 9780822943273). Hardcover. Used, Hardcover and jacket. Signed and dedicated by author to Maurice Shock on F.E.P. Upper corners of boards are a little bumped. Very good condition. TA. Very Good. Signed by Author.
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Essays in Philosophical Analysis.
Pittsburgh Press 1969. LEINEN, 430 Seiten, Originalschutzumschlag, dieser minimal randlädiert, das Buch selber ist gut erhalten --- Cloth, original jacket, this a bit bumped, 430 pages, the book is in a good condition
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Catalogue: Philosophie
Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. A Tribute on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Synthese Library).
Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969, cloth, dustj, 8vo, v+272 pp., essays by Paul oppenheim, W.V. Quine, Jaakko Hintikka, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, and many others; very good condition (unused). . .
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Essays in Philosophical Analysis.
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. x,430 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good.
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History of Philosophy Quarterly: Vol. 1, 1984
U.S.A. History of Philosophy Quarterly. 1984. hardcover. Ex-Library, No dust jacket. Hardcover. Ex-library, with library labelling on front pastedown, front endpaper and at two or three further points. One or two small ink marks on boards. Spine is slightly cocked and bumped. Small mark left by removal of a label across spine foot. Leading corners are a little worn and frayed. Some age-fading and spotting on page block. Blue ink mark on page 8. Contents are sound and text is clear throughout. AF. Good/No Dust Jacket.
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Catalogue: Philosophy & Ethics